One week after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle and devastated wide swaths of half a dozen states, untold thousands remained cut off around Asheville, North Carolina, with many roads impassable and telecommunications and power equipment damaged or destroyed.
A power substation near the Swannanoa River in Biltmore Village was reportedly flooded completely. The Charlotte Observer reported that repairs to the substation would take three to four months. Duke Energy is installing a mobile substation to fill the void.
According to the Duke Energy outage map, more than 140,000 customers in North Carolina are without power.
Elsewhere along the river, multiple vehicles remained stuck in the water with downed trees and power lines fallen on the banks.
Clean-up crews were emptying the Grand Bohemian Hotel of mud-soaked, water-logged items, put in thick trash bags outside.
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